outfront tonight border surge. president biden is answering questions. migrants are coming in because you promised to make things better. it seems to get worse by the day. first of all, there was a surge the last two years and 19 and 20 had a surge as well. the idea that joe biden says come, i heard the other day is they re coming because i am a nice guy. here is the deal. they re not. do you have to say quite clearly don t come. yes, in the process of getting set up, don t leave your town or city or community. all right, this coming as the secretary of homeland security warns we are on pace to encounter more individuals than we have the last 20 years, we are encountering children six or se seven-year-old without adults. cnn told some children are in jail. as of tonight there are 4,200 children in custody which dw dwarves the number at the peak of the crisis. they were not ready for this. president biden himself has not yet visited the border and has no plans
aspires to be as transparent as possible. would it be possible to get a transcript of the conversation with his chinese counterpart noting the prooevious administration released a transcript. i m hoping this administration can be just as transparent. i m not going to sign us up to releasing transcripts of conversations that occurred before we took office. i can t do that. i d refer you to the chairman s office if you want more context on that. we re not in a position to do that. also can you address a little bit about the evolution of the partnership and training and
i think the plan called for about 350. she was correct, the prooevious interviewer. the beds were piled up on each other and what kind of struck me, it was me, the mayor and we just walked right in with no credential check. that concerned me for the safety of the citizens living there. it was really horrific and she is correct. there were piles of dirty linens and trash next to where they were cooking. it was really a very shocking situation. so after you saw that, what did you do? immediately, it didn t take me long to realize we had a bad situation. i left the situation and called the speaker of the house. i advised him we had a problem and we needed to get it corrected. also shocking to our knowledge we didn t know this facility
arkansas children s health system says he has seen something terrifying. throughout the prooevious month of the pandemic, we had 0 to three children testing positive for covid, and they often showed up for other reasons, weren t showing symptoms of the covid infection. today we have 24 with covid infections, all symptomatic with covid, and eight of those are in intensive care and five requiring mechanical ventilation to breathe. children on ventilators. the head of the coronavirus response said one-third of all cases reported this past week were in florida and texas. nadia romero is joining us now from new orleans. these health officials are really sounding an alarm here, nadia. reporter: they are, brianna, and it feels like deja vu in new orleans because we have been here before. remember the first super spreader event was right after
and also, doug, this is a president who just some two weeks ago talked about deescalating the u.s. involvement in syria, some 2000 u.s. special forces in a number of locations throughout the country fighting against isis. the president cited the huge progress that has been made in that and he talks about bringing those forces home, focusing more on the u.s. but events on the ground often overtake the best laid plans or desires of any administration. and you have this strike on saturday in douma. absolutely. syria is a conundrum. nobody knows what to do there. it cost president barack obama a real kind of cut to his legacy when he did the famous red line there. donald trump had campaigned on basically wanting to stay out of the syrian situation. the fact of his closeness or seaming closeness to putin s russia has been a factor.